{
 "slug": "daikon-no-hana",
 "name": "Daikon no Hana",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/daikon-no-hana",
 "location": "Akiu",
 "prefecture": "Miyagi",
 "region": "Tohoku",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 38.2258,
  "lng": 140.6167
 },
 "tier": "—",
 "score": null,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": true,
 "confidence": "low",
 "evidence": {
  "units": null,
  "op_stays": null,
  "member_stays": null
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": 52,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": "Large country-style ryokan",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "No",
  "meals_in_room": null
 },
 "summary": "Daikon no Hana is a 52-room onsen ryokan in the Sendai area, and its strength is the water: every bath runs straight from the source with nothing recirculated, and KI-NRT singles out the rental bath surrounded by forest. He stayed many years ago and describes it as the country home-style, relaxed alternative to the pricier, more tranquil and more traditional Saryo Souen, a matter of taste between the two. Nobody in the thread has written about the food, the rooms or the service.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Nobody in the thread has written about the food here."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": 4,
   "text": "All the onsen at Daikon no Hana run straight from the source and nothing is recirculated, and there are some nice baths, especially the rental bath surrounded by a forest, which KI-NRT singles out."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Nobody in the thread has written about the service here."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "At 52 rooms it is fairly large for a luxury ryokan, but nobody in the thread has written about the rooms themselves."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "Daikon no Hana has a country home-style atmosphere, and KI-NRT contrasts it with Saryo Souen, the other luxury choice around Sendai, which is more tranquil and more traditional; he calls the choice between the two a matter of taste. He was last at both places many years ago."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Sendai",
    "hours": 0.6,
    "time": "~0h35",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Akiu Onsen is roughly 30-40 min by car or shuttle bus from JR Sendai Station."
   },
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 2.3,
    "time": "~2h20",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Tohoku Shinkansen Hayabusa from Tokyo to Sendai is about 1h30, then roughly 40 min by car out to Akiu Onsen."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_daikonnohana-0-8970e5a3.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 312
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_daikonnohana-1-6d8ef4d0.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_daikonnohana-2-9f831ec0.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 312
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_daikonnohana-3-e65c2423.jpg",
   "tag": "interior",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_daikonnohana-4-127105e3.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.daikon-no-hana.com/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=4750689129617876782",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 404,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36527994-post404.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}